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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6396223 bytes)
Pages
801\801
Time added
2019-10-13 08:18:30

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world's leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial criticism and new areas of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, materialism, and many other fields. In addition, the book includes a substantial A-to-Z compendium of key words and important thinkers in contemporary theory, making this an essential resource for scholars of literary and cultural theory at all levels. Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 List of Contributors......Page 9 Introduction: Theory in the New Millennium......Page 16 Notes......Page 26 Works Cited......Page 28 Part 1: Essays......Page 30 Chapter 1: Early Theory......Page 32 Notes......Page 39 Works Cited......Page 40 Chapter 2: Structuralism and Semiotics......Page 42 Notes......Page 55 Works Cited......Page 56 Chapter 3: Narrative and Narratology......Page 58 Notes......Page 64 Works Cited......Page 69 Chapter 4: Marxism......Page 74 Works Cited......Page 82 Chapter 5: Post-Structuralism......Page 85 Works Cited......Page 93 Chapter 6: Historicisms......Page 95 Notes......Page 103 Works Cited......Page 104 Chapter 7: Psychoanalytic Theory......Page 106 Notes......Page 113 Works Cited......Page 115 Chapter 8: Rhetoric......Page 117 Notes......Page 122 Works Cited......Page 124 Chapter 9: Deconstruction......Page 127 Notes......Page 136 Works Cited......Page 138 Chapter 10: Feminism......Page 140 Waiving the Waves......Page 142 She Came to Stay......Page 145 The Wild Woman......Page 148 Notes......Page 150 Works Cited......Page 152 One......Page 155 Two......Page 156 Three......Page 158 Four......Page 160 Five......Page 161 Notes......Page 162 Works Cited......Page 164 Chapter 12: Postmodernism......Page 166 Modernism and Postmodernism as a Historical Period or Style......Page 167 Modernism and Postmodernism as Cultural Dominant; or Postmodernism and Capitalism......Page 169 Postmodernism and/as “the Linguistic Turn”: Postmodernism as Theory......Page 171 Post-Postmodernism and the Returns of Essentialist Realism......Page 173 Notes......Page 174 Works Cited......Page 175 Chapter 13: Race and Postcolonial Studies......Page 177 Is Cultural Resistance still Resistant?......Page 181 Neoliberalism’s New Normal......Page 183 Understanding, Liberation, Difference......Page 184 Notes......Page 185 Works Cited......Page 187 Chapter 14: Ecocriticism......Page 188 Notes......Page 198 Works Cited......Page 199 Chapter 15: Biopower and Biopolitics......Page 201 The “Deployment” (dispositif) of Sexuality (1976)......Page 203 The Government of the Living: The Birth of Biopolitics (1978–1979)......Page 205 The Major Mutations of the Concept of Biopower (1984–): Deleuze and Agamben......Page 208 Notes......Page 212 Works Cited......Page 214 Plastic Man, Where Are You?......Page 216 Notes......Page 225 Works Cited......Page 228 Chapter 17: Comparativisms......Page 231 Notes......Page 239 Works Cited......Page 241 One......Page 245 Two......Page 247 Three......Page 249 Four......Page 251 Notes......Page 254 Works Cited......Page 256 History......Page 258 Approaches......Page 259 New Directions......Page 262 The Future......Page 264 Notes......Page 266 Works Cited......Page 268 Chapter 20: Digital Humanities......Page 270 Notes......Page 279 Works Cited......Page 282 Chapter 21: Late Capitalism......Page 283 New Forms of Alienation and Isolation......Page 287 Donald Trump's Media Strategy......Page 289 Beyond Disimagination Machines......Page 290 Notes......Page 291 Works Cited......Page 293 Chapter 22: Identity Studies......Page 295 Notes......Page 305 Works Cited......Page 307 Understanding Materialism and Materiality......Page 311 New Meaterialisms......Page 312 Speculative Realism......Page 316 Coda: The Future of Contemporary Materialisms......Page 319 Notes......Page 320 Works Cited......Page 322 The Persistence of the Human......Page 325 Science, Transhumanism, and The Rise of The Cyborg......Page 327 (Re)Turning to The Animal......Page 329 Notes......Page 333 Works Cited......Page 335 The Rise of Critical University Studies......Page 338 The Tradition of Radical Criticism of Higher Education......Page 340 Touchstones and New Challenges of University Studies......Page 342 Notes......Page 345 Works Cited......Page 346 Chapter 26: Affect Studies......Page 348 Affect and Queer Theory......Page 350 Affect and Materialism......Page 352 Affect and the Present......Page 354 Notes......Page 355 Works Cited......Page 356 Chapter 27: Antitheory......Page 358 Notes......Page 366 Works Cited......Page 367 Part 2: Terms and Figures......Page 370 A......Page 372 B......Page 396 C......Page 416 D......Page 451 E......Page 478 F......Page 500 G......Page 514 H......Page 521 I......Page 541 J......Page 554 K......Page 557 L......Page 560 M......Page 576 N......Page 598 O......Page 616 P......Page 627 Q......Page 668 R......Page 670 S......Page 689 T......Page 729 U......Page 744 V......Page 748 W......Page 751 Z......Page 759 Name Index......Page 762 Subject Index......Page 779

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